This post is misleading. This scenario will only happen after all the ice is melted in Antarctica causing a >200ft sea level rise, which would take at least a couple millenia of extreme global warming to happen. There will be beachfront property slipping into the sea by 2075 with a lot of ecological and economic consequences involved, the NOAA has given us a neat little tool for visualizing what's to come. https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr
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Projections for when though?
- Sorry I had to do a ninja edit: the original post I stole this from didn't have the text on the image, but was rather a retweet of text post with this image (e.g., nested post)
I see, the meme makes a lot more sense now. I was like this isn’t a meme it’s just a map of the future of Florida lol.
That said this seems very extreme and exaggerated for 2075. Sea level rise is one of the slowest aspects of climate change. Generally the worst case is thought to be about 2 meters by 2100 which is significant but not enough to affect non-coastal areas.
For fun I did a quick check and based on GEBCO elevation data this looks like about 20m sea rise (I'm guessing exactly -- I assume whoever made the image picked a round number).

I could have posted what 2m looks like but at this scale it just looks like current Florida.
your edit was so stealthy if befuddled even the formatter

2075
And likely much earlier.
Due to the nature of science and how any predictions and projections it makes needs to be couched in exceedingly conservative tones, it has become a running gag in climate science that everything will happen “much sooner than expected”. Because invariably, it does. Sometime hundreds of years sooner than expected.
Hell, it was first thought that the AMOC wouldn’t collapse for centuries, and now more accurate projections put it as being sometime between 2025 and 2085, with a “most likely due date” of some time in the early 2050s. And this is still an exceedingly conservative estimate. Who wants to bet that it’ll happen much sooner than even that?
Climate change isn't real, it's the democrat water machines they have in the ocean to punish red states, dummy.
Looking at the bright side, there will be lots of newly formed artificial reefs available for the remaining fish. Hoping those fish can find a way to adapt to the warmer waters though.
Warmer waters isnt the real problem (well i mean it is) its ocean acidifcation where coral and other marine creatures cant form carbonated calcium shells anymore causing a complete collapose of marine ecosystems.
Party in the city where the heat is on all night, on the beach 'til the break of dawn
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Damn democrats and their sea machine!
Hurricane machines in 2024 and now this!?
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Along the bottom right you'll see West P[alm] Beach. That's where Mar-a-lago is.
Now by 2075 Trump will be dead, as will likely all of his children except the youngest ones like Baron who will be roughly Trump's current age.
This is also why many "current generation" folks don't care about climate change. They will not be alive to see it, since people just don't live that long.
Basically none of those you hope will suffer the consequences of their actions will.
I'd much prefer the Floridians stay in Florida. We need to stop climate change before the Floridians move in next door.
Build! A! Wall!
This map fails to depict unfathomably massive amount of seaweed that the ocean is going to push in. The ocean doesn't stop pushing in, ever. The shit will be 100 feet high.

that will be a fun new tourist attraction
I was recently in the Yucatán and their tourist season is basically driven by seaweed these days because it grows so much in the warmer temps. In summer the beaches are covered in rotten seaweed and no one wants to travel there. I imagine Florida will start to experience this as well.
I mourn the loss the Key West, and... Not much else, geographically speaking.
Putting almost all the major cities underwater is only gonna make what's left more red.
well all those people have to go sonewhere
If it’s not visibly happening right now, then they won’t believe you until their house is underwater.

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